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Information: Jean Baptiste Colbert was the French minister of finance from 1661 to 1683. He worked, with only partial success, to improve the conditions for internal trade. He improved the public infrastructure, in part by the use of the hated corvee.
Colbert, Jean Baptiste further on these related pages:
Colbert, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Jean Baptiste: Article from the Wikipedia open encyclopedia project. (Colbert, Jean Baptiste) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert
History of Economic Thought | Jean Baptiste Colbert History of Economic Thought | Jean Baptiste Colbert: Biography, links, and works of Colbert. (Colbert, Jean Baptiste) http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/colbert.htm
Memorandum on Trade, 1664 Memorandum on Trade, 1664: From the Modern History Sourcebook (Colbert, Jean Baptiste) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1664colbert.html